Dna Quotes

• The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

  Lewis Thomas

  Real, Science, Errors

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.

  Hendrik Poinar

  Nuclear, Enzymes, Protein

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• DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

  Bill Gates

  Computer, Biology, Program

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The road ahead”

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• The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

  Spencer Wells

  Book, Written, History Books

  Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.195, Random House

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• There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Typical, Molecules

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• If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

  Drew Endy

  Writing, Ifs

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• There is divinity in your DNA. Live your light.

  Carlos Santana

  Light, Divinity

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• We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest.

  Rosalind Franklin

  Wish, Salt, Acid

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• DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

  Richard Dawkins

  Care, Knows

  River Out of Eden ch. 4 (1995)

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• The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Sex, Eye

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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• DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

  Spencer Wells

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mushrooms

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• .....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

  Jeremy Narby

  Long, Body, Earth

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.73, Penguin

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• When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.

  Bill McCartney

  Born Again, Ability, Term

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• DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Secret, Used, Secret Life

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.330, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have a dark side... 98 per cent of our DNA is the same. The difference is that we have developed language - we can teach about things that aren't there, plan for the future, discuss, share ideas

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Intelligent, Ideas

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• Consistency is the DNA of mastery

  Robin Sharma

  Consistency, Mastery

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Apr 04, 2011

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• With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Identification, Ability

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• A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

  Neal Shusterman

  Stranger, Collections, Trapped

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.155, Penguin

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• And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

  Salvador Dali

  God, Real, Science

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• Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

  David R. Brower

  Dream, Cancer, Men

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  The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Iron, Apples

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books

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• I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Thinking, Years

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• Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

  Francis Collins

  Doubt, Records, Fossils

  "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.

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• No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Book, Writing, Waiting

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• It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.

  Graham Cooke

  Space, Atmosphere, Safe

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Nov 20, 2012

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